Exam question 1 · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

To what object did the sister refer when she sought assurance of her brother's welfare?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, welfare · What happens: refer, seek, assure · To what, where: assurance

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 refer	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 refer	nsubj
7	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sought	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sought	nsubj
10	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 refer	advcl
11	assurance	assurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 welfare	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 welfare	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 brother	case
16	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assurance	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 refer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refer	past · do-support	the sister		vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	seek	past	sister	assurance of sister's brother's welfare	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assurance=Theme
3	assure		sister's brother's welfare		nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the brother's sword and the state of its edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sword	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 brother	case
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 state	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 state	det
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sword	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 edge	nmod:poss
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the silver bell and the color of its rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 color	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 color	det
6	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rope	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rope	nmod:poss
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 color	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the knife and the condition of its blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 condition	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knife	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 blade	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 blade	nmod:poss
8	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 condition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	condition			condition's blade					nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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